Murray Construction

Murray Construction, run by John Murray out of Sandwich, holds an active Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license (#192304), verified with the state registry. The bulk of the written record — dozens of reviews from 2018 through mid-2025 — centers on one specialty: deck building. In a July 2025 review, a homeowner describes a new deck and stairs finished early and under budget. Other dated accounts describe full deck rebuilds, including a 35-year-old deck replaced in a project coordinated with a separate patio contractor in 2025, and several composite deck installations with railings, stairs, and design work through 2023 and 2024. Beyond decks, reviews also describe whole-home renovations with finish carpentry work in early 2025, and siding and window replacement dated to 2022 and 2023. Alongside that praise, a real minority pattern shows up across several years: in October 2023, three separate reviewers within about a week of each other described the owner as rude, disrespectful, or unprofessional in direct interactions; a November 2024 review describes trouble getting him to follow through on scheduling after being quoted a job; and a 2018 review describes a mid-project price increase on a job whose scope hadn't changed. These accounts are a small share of the overall record, but the personality complaints recur specifically enough, and cluster tightly enough in October 2023, to be worth knowing going in. One more thing worth flagging: BuildZoom shows a 1.0-star average, but that rests on a single rating and shouldn't be read as representative — Google (4.4 stars from 26 ratings) and HomeAdvisor (5.0 from 9) tell a very different story.